The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-27

| instead or endless VIII and gayety III the private
| correspondence of even SO brilliant writer.
Another series of letters, written by Eliza South
gate Bovine, young matron or New York
eighty years ago, give pleasant glimpses of the
social life of that period. and throw agreeable
| light upon time which we are apt to thirk of
Swallowed with the gloom aud seriousness OF
/ war, past and impending John e. Ropes con-
| tinues his study of Napoleon and his times ac-
| companying it with further illustrations from
| his collection of portraits The fiction and the
| poetry MP to the standard already estab-
| lished by this magazine.
| The first nine pages of the Atlantic Monthly
| for July filled with poem by Georpa E.
| Woodberry entitled ''My Country" It is
stately ode. and in elegant and eloquent dcton
| expresses a lofty patriotism and a faith
| in the future of the Republic. Doubtful of his
own ability to do justice to the theme the writer
| closes thus:
Faint is my heart, and ebbing with the passion of
| thy praiset
| The poets come who cannot fail;
Happy are they who sing they perfect days.
Happy am who see the long night ended
| In the shadows of the age that bore me,
| An the hopes OF mankind blending.
| While the day steadfastly
| Domes the blue deeps thee,
| Happy am who see the vision splendid
In the glowing of the dawn before me-
All the grace Of heaven blending,
While Gods hand in secrecy
Builds thy bright eternity"
Boston critics enthusiastic in their praises
| OF this poem, one going so far to say that.
| whether regarded for its thought its art. it
| ''soars away above anything of the kind
| written in America and that, indeed the great
| odes of English classic literature cannot show
| forth its superior for sustained exatation of
| idea, and nobility and splendor of diction."
| Other contributions to the magazine of the
usual attractiveness. Count Tolstoi and the
Public Censor form the subject of a sketch by
Isabel Hapgood; Agnes Repplier writes enter
tainingIy of the Decay of Sentiment" II. E.
Scudder argues that one way of making the boy
into good citizen is to teach the American
classics in school meaning thereby the gems of
American patriotic literature. W. A. Crafts dis
cusses the railroad problem and Oliver Wendell
Holmes continues the "reminiscences of his tour
in England.
The July Harper opens with an illustrated
article descriptive of the art of book making.
1t is very accurate description of every process
of printing and binding, and those not familiar
by observation with this class of work may be-
como well informed in regard to it by perusal
of this very comprehensive paper. Cadetship at
West Point, as described by Capt Charles King,
Is an attractive and enviable one in spite of its
monotony and strict discipline. Captain King
is evidently lmbued with a strong love for the
institution and the youth who reads his enthusi-
astic description hardly fail to be drawn, at
least momentarily, to a military life 4 poem,
PIullada, by an anonymous author. has some
spirited illustrations by Abbey. "a Central
Soudan Town." by Joseph Thompson is another
illustrated article. Rebecca Harding Davis
writes of the old and new South, with the pur-
pose of removing what she magines to be a
Northern prejud against both. Richard t.
Ely continues his social studies and treats of the
future Of corporations. The fiction is not of a
noticeably high character. The various editorials
departments in this magazine becoming
somewhat overpowering and would bear mod
lEcation.
"Metakahtla' is the title of an article in the
July American Magazine, giving interesting
account of the missionary work of Rev. William
British America Rev. W. w. Culver of
Bishop College, Marshall. Tex, writes of the
colored schools of the Southwest, and the educa-
tional progress of the negroes in that region
Moses P. Handy talks about the literary l'se of
Philadelphia. So slight is the general literary
reputation of that city that the reader who
clances at this article is apt to exclaim that
Philadelphia has no literary life, but a mention
of the names of Walt Whitman, Prof j. b. Nc
Master Horace Howard Furness, George H.
Boxer, Charles G. Leland, Mrs. A. L. Wistar.
Prof Ellis Thompson, Rebecca Harding Davis
DIR. 5. Weir Mitchell and Others is convincing
proof that 1t is, in fact one of the many ''cen-
ters of culture"o of which so much is said. George
K. Knapp contributes some Information concern
ing women fruit raisers and florists Edgar
Fawcetts story, OLIVIA Delaplane," grows in
interest and promises to be one of his best.
This magazine, which is published in
New York, is sold for % cents per number.
Popular Science Monthly, which usually con-
taius much that is not strictly scientific but is
contents for July. Hon. David A. Wells writes
of Economic Disturbances since 1872 Prof
Farlow describes the Task OF American Bot
anists" NJ. Guyot Daubes contributes illus
trated article on Variations in human Stat urs"
Other topies treated of are. The Panama
Canal" The North American Lakes" 1.-The
Thousand Islands" Human Brain Weights"
Earthquakes, Mental Differences of Men and
Women" and Modern Overeducation."
American Art (Boston) contains description
of the work of American artists in the Paris
salon. account of the Cowles Art School, de-
partments of comment and review, monthly art
record, household decoration etc. Its frontis-
piece, drawing representing a group of chill
dren gathering dandelions. is rather an ungrace-
full and inartistic piece of work.
The New York Novelist issued in weekly and
monthly numbers by John y. Alden, New York
at q subscription price Of so cents a year. con-
tains, in its June issue, complete novel by
Robert Louis Stevenson. emit Glad prince Otto"
The Art Interchange of June Is, contains
pretty eolored landscape study and also a decor
Stive figure for screen panel in black and
white, entitled Evening"
Bold, Dashing Business Men.